CTO at BRKFST
Jon Lopinot
Mobile Application Testing Services
We can help you create mobile applications your audience will enjoy using. Through manual and automated mobile app testing, we’ll provide a full assessment of your digital solution to ensure it works flawlessly on a variety of devices, aligns with app store guidelines, and meets user expectations.
Clients
Our specialists become full-fledged members of the clients’ teams soon after they join the projects. Each QA expert is as dedicated to your goals as you are. Our average retention on the QA software testing project is 3.5 years. Many clients have been working with our dedicated QA experts far more than that, and many choose to return with their new projects.
Mobile Platforms We Test
Our mobile app testing team provides professional services for various mobile platforms and OS. Our bank of real devices includes the most popular models operated on iOS, Android, Windows, and other operating systems. With comprehensive testing strategies adjusted to each platform, we aim to help businesses deliver high-quality, reliable apps that meet user expectations across all devices and OS environments.
iOS Application Testing
The QA Madness team will run iOS app testing on real devices to ensure the correct functionality, stability, performance, and security.
Android Application Testing
The team of QA experts will find bugs, check performance, and security using real devices driven by the Android operating system.
What Are Mobile App Testing Services?
Mobile testing as a service helps businesses identify potential issues in their software intended for usage on smartphones and tablets and improve its overall performance. Mobile app testing companies that provide these services look into details of various quality aspects. QA experts start with mobile functional testing to check if the app works as intended. They run performance, compatibility, accessibility, localization, usability, and a number of other testing types to review and validate all characteristics of a mobile app before it reaches users. Mobile software testing services help ensure a better user experience and contribute to the app’s success in the competitive market.
Types of Mobile Testing We Provide
Mobile app testing services encompass various testing types to cover all critical aspects of the software’s work. Each kind of inspection provides insights into specific facets – features, usability, responsiveness, stability under different conditions, accessibility, and more. Different mobile testing types contribute to the same goal: creating a seamless and satisfying user experience that boosts the app’s reliability and popularity among users.
It is one of the key components of mobile app testing services. During functional testing of mobile applications, QA engineers closely interact with the software’s features, mimicking real user behavior. These checkups consider very diverse elements and actions, ranging from basic operations like tapping buttons to applying all possible user scenarios for complex app-specific functionalities. Through functional testing, QA engineers verify that everything is working as intended and detect deviations from the expected behavior for pre-release fixing.
During UI testing for mobile apps, QA engineers examine the application’s design elements, layout, and navigation. The purpose of a UI mobile app test is to confirm everything is working, user-friendly, and appealing. The specialists estimate both functionality and visual components, paying attention to font sizes, colors, button placements, etc. Identifying and addressing any potential UI issues allows for the enhancement of the overall usability. The team ends up with a mobile application that meets the requirements and is easy to navigate.
Our team conducts thorough performance testing on mobile apps to assess and assure the speed, stability, and responsiveness of your product under varying conditions. QA engineers simulate different usage scenarios. They can include heavy user traffic, low network connectivity, high system loads, etc. All of this helps identify potential performance bottlenecks and areas for optimization. The goal is to ensure your mobile application is flexible enough to deliver consistent performance in a vast array of real-world scenarios.
Mobile compatibility testing is aimed at ensuring your application works properly across various devices, operating systems, screen sizes, browsers, and versions of all of the mentioned. Ensuring the mobile app’s compatibility with different software and hardware configurations is critical for business. The app should work equally well regardless of the device or platform your audience chooses to use. QA engineers check features as well as evaluate the app’s responsiveness and visual integrity.
Testing on emulators and simulators is acceptable in the early phases of testing. Yet, only real devices allow us to check how an application behaves with native hardware and other apps installed there. QA engineers can model various interruptions and check numerous use cases closely, including resource utilization, camera, location, network connectivity, third-party interruptions, and more. Mobile devices testing allows the team to optimize your mobile application for a diverse user base, enhance its overall quality, and boost user satisfaction.
This type of manual mobile application testing offers a dynamic and intuitive approach to evaluating your mobile application. Unlike scripted tests, exploratory testing involves improvisation. The QA engineers actively “explore” the app, interacting with it as end-users would. Hence, exploratory testing allows for uncovering unexpected issues or areas for potential improvements. It also works well as the initial inspection of a mobile application when a QA engineer just joins a team and starts learning the app details and preparing the testing documentation.
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QA Madness helps tech companies strengthen their in-house teams by staffing dedicated manual and automated testing experts.
Why You Need Mobile Apps Testing Services
Ensuring your product’s success is a complex task, and testing is an indispensable part of it. Proper QA is not just a formality. iOS and Android app testing services are a strategic necessity that gives you a competitive advantage. By entrusting your product to professional mobile testing services, you invest in the proactive handling of any issues and mitigate the risk of negative experiences.
Quality Verification
It’s the main goal of mobile application testing and the primary reason for running it. Quality verification goes beyond just identifying bugs. It entails a full assessment of the app’s functionality, performance, and usability, along with spotting any areas for improvement.Device Fragmentation
Determining the ultimate set of gadgets for sufficient coverage for the target region. A professional mobile app testing team will help you do that, addressing device-specific challenges and ensuring a consistent and seamless experience for all users.High Competition
Mobile app testing service provides a strategic edge in the fierce competition businesses are experiencing today. Augmenting your team with specific skills and proficiencies helps align the mobile application with the continually rising expectations and accelerate releases.Mobile-Specific Aspects
Mobile apps come with a unique set of challenges and considerations. We have a large bank of real devices to detect and address them. It allows QA engineers to pay increased attention to hardware, connectivity, interruptions, geolocation, touch gestures, and more.Reaching Wider Audiences
With mobile applications testing, your solution becomes accessible to a broader spectrum of users, regardless of the device they choose to use. It also helps to ensure that the functionality and performance are acceptable and attractive to users, which is critical.Meeting User Expectations
With the variety of apps available today, it’s natural that users are very demanding. Testing from an end-user perspective allows QA engineers to get hands-on experience with your product. Testing provides insights for improvements that make an app user-ready.Mobile Apps We Test
Mobile solutions come with different tech stacks. These particularities influence the approach and mobile application test strategy. The testing types and basic scenarios are common, but in each case, QA engineers need to adjust the coverage and work scope to account for app-specific nuances. Our iOS/Android app testing service covers all four types of mobile applications.
Native Apps
These applications are developed separately for each platform. If you have one for Android and one for iOS, it’s necessary to run native app testing using separate checklists and allocating enough time for it when planning.
Hybrid Apps
If a single app is uploaded in both stores, QA engineers only check it once, but on the same number of devices. Also, they need to pay more attention to aspects such as performance, layout, and integrations.
Mobile Web Apps
Web apps should operate on various devices and browsers, including smartphones. The diversity of phones will remain the same, but the quality aspects in focus will be different than for installable apps.
Progressive Web Apps
Having a similar stack to a web application, a PWA delivers the native experience via the web. Once again, QA engineers need to consider this when finalizing test documentation and marking risk areas.
Expertise
With QA Madness, you get vast mobile app testing expertise. Our team specializes in a variety of methodologies, types of mobile application testing, and tools for testing and team collaboration. The QA engineers work with different tech stacks and business domains, from entertainment and e-commerce to finance and blockchain. On top of that, your QA department can scale up and down quickly when needed.
Platforms
- WEB APP TESTING
- MOBILE APPLICATION TESTING
- DESKTOP APPLICATION TESTING
- API/SDK TESTING
- WEARABLES TESTING
- ERP/CRM TESTING
Why Choose QA Madness as a Mobile App Testing Company
With QA Madness, you get a reliable partner working alongside you to achieve your business goals. Our team is committed to quality in all its manifestations — from bug-free software to meaningful communication. The QA specialists are proficient in a wide range of mobile test services and methodologies. Besides preparing a tailored QA strategy, we’ll cover all quality-related services and quickly scale the team on demand. And that’s only some of the benefits you’ll get.
Devices
We have a large bank of real devices on which to test your mobile app. Thus, you can be sure that bug reports and quality recommendations account for all device-specific aspects that are relevant to real user scenarios.
Specialists
Most of our QA engineers are Middle and Senior-level experts. Meanwhile, Junior specialists pass through checks for hard and soft skills. You can also request an ISTQB-certified specialist to join your team.
Expertise
The QA Madness team covers various testing types, including security testing. Our QA engineers have experience with a vast technology stack and domain knowledge in multiple industries.
Security
Our team also provides security assessment and control for mobile applications. You don’t need to look for a different company to test your app for vulnerabilities and prepare a strategy for countering risks.
Communication
Clients name communication and detailed feedback as one of the key benefits they enjoy in collaboration. In addition to extensive bug reports, QA engineers share additional suggestions on quality improvement.
Flexibility
QA experts can join your team at any stage of development. You can request one or several QA engineers with specific skill sets for augmentation of your existing team or setting up a QA department from scratch.
Our Featured QA & Testing Projects
Quality Assurance Setup and Testing for Mobile Gaming & NFT Platform
The client was looking for a QA engineer with experience in mobile testing and knowledge of the gaming industry. They had a new and custom platform and needed to set up the QA process from scratch: define the coverage, prepare documentation, and integrate testing into the workflow.
QA Process Setup and Testing for the Meeting Platform
The product was live, but the QA process was chaotic – without a clear flow or software testing specialists involved. The client sought an external audit and process setup so that other team members wouldn’t have to test the platform and severe defects wouldn’t slip to production.
Quick QA Team Scaling for Supply Chain Software Company
The company needed to expand its QA department rapidly during hypergrowth. They had high standards regarding the candidate requirements and an extensive list of responsibilities for the new team members. The main challenge was getting the right expertise while scaling quickly and smoothly.
Full-time QA Support for the Marketing Platform Providear
The QA team joined a few months into the development. The platform was new and developed from scratch. Thus, it required thorough analysis at all test levels and vast coverage. The team worked under frequently changing requirements and needed to adjust the testing strategy accordingly.
Testing Process Setup for the Cancer Research Software
The client develops innovative desktop software products in the healthcare domain. The QA engineers tested two of their projects – software that operates the laboratory devices. The company needed vast test coverage and consistent documentation standardized by their rules.
Testing of the Cloud-Based E-Commerce Solution
The company created a shipping storefront solution – a custom product that hasn’t been tested yet. The scope of tasks for QA engineers, in addition to running tests, included close analysis and the creation of a detailed functional checklist that would suit the first and subsequent test iteration.
Let’s Start a New Project Together
QA Madness helps tech companies strengthen their in-house teams by staffing dedicated manual and automated testing experts.
Mobile Apps Testing Process Includes
Our QA mobile testing process is designed to ensure every important detail of your app is thoroughly examined. QA specialists can tailor a precise step-by-step plan after learning your objectives and the product’s particularities. In general, it entails five phases: planning, design, implementation, stabilization, and delivery.
Planning
QA engineers get familiar with the app and set the background for testing.
They communicate closely with your team to learn as much as possible about the app. In addition to the functionality, it includes specific requirements and business objectives. Based on that, QA engineers define the test scope, prepare a mobile test strategy or test plan for mobile application testing, and outline a roadmap for the project.
Clear communication and transparent planning are critical at this stage. They lay the foundation for systematic planning, which allows you to align the work scope with your objectives and expectations from quality assurance. Moreover, good planning makes it easier to scale or update the strategy later if needed.
Design
QA engineers set up everything that is necessary to test mobile application.
The specialists create detailed documentation that outlines the specific scenarios to execute. They write mobile app testing checklist or test cases covering various aspects of your app. Having a finalized list of checkups helps systemize the testing process and keep it better organized throughout execution.
Additionally, QA engineers participate in setting up the testing environment. They share requirements to make sure it mimics real-use conditions. It’s also necessary to prepare test data: create or request test accounts, credentials, and similar details. Hence, the design phase sets the stage for proper test execution.
Implementation
QA engineers move from preparation to testing mobile app.
The carefully crafted test plans and designs come to life. The QA engineers execute the prewritten test cases or checklists to evaluate the mobile app’s functionality, performance, usability, and security. They interact with your app as end-users, mimicking their behavior closely to identify any potential bugs or glitches.
During mobile software testing, QA engineers assess the user interface, navigation, and overall design to ensure the app works as intended, the design is consistent, and user flows are intuitive. This phase is critical in the mobile app testing process. This is when QA specialists get to ensure that the app meets the requirements and report deviations.
Stabilization
Software and QA engineers work on fixes together.
While developers are in charge of code changes during bug fixes, QA specialists proceed with mobile application testing service and run several extra checkups. These include retesting, smoke testing, and regression testing. Only after completing these procedures can we be sure that all issues identified earlier are resolved.
The stabilization phase is the bridge between testing and release. Stabilization is about fine-tuning your application and making sure it’s ready to handle real users. QA engineers confirm the bugs have been fixed, and new ones haven’t appeared during recent code iterations. They give a green light to deployment on production.
Delivery
The app is released, and the team sums up the process.
After meticulous mobile platform testing, bug resolution, and optimization, the app is released. After this, the QA engineers work mainly with user feedback and tickets from the team. If the company works in sprints, however, the development and testing cycle starts all over again, from planning to delivery of new features and fixes.
Also, the QA engineers provide comprehensive test reports and share overall feedback with the team. They summarize testing activities, discuss issue resolution, and, if needed, suggest process improvements for further cooperation. This transparency allows you to have a clear overview of the QA app testing process and your app’s quality.
Clients About Us
“QA Madness has established a smooth workflow through effective communication. The team is trustworthy, efficient, and hardworking.”
“Thanks to QA Madness’s efforts, we are able to resolve technical issues and keep our platforms optimized and bug-free.”
CEO at Dexter Agency
Marc Uitterhoeve
“QA Madness was seriously professional. They listened to our needs and gave us the kind of work we expected. As a result of their efforts, we can locate a bug in the test environment, which prevents issues from entering production. I would recommend them, 100%.”
COO at Bitbull Srl
Alessandro Ronchi
"They’ve always been very professional, prompt, and available when we needed them. We’ve never had any issues or needed to go back and teach them how to meet our standards."
VP at Isadora Agency
Alex Mathias
"QA Madness has significantly reduced the number of bugs and issues in our final products. They’ve also improved our internal processes."
Co-founder of Wezz E-Commerce
Jordi Dekker
"QA Madness generated extensive feedback that developers normally can’t see. We could never have gained this insight without their thorough functionality testing services. I appreciated how quickly they conducted testing despite the high volume of work it entails."
CEO at SupportDesk
Wouter Den Otter
"They are an extremely valuable part of our extended team, and I couldn’t ask for more from a project management standpoint. QA Madness team is extremely professional when it comes to sticking to estimates, scopes, and quotes."
Co-founder of Above The Fray Design, Inc.
Noah Oken-Berg
FAQ
Mobile application testing service comes with a lot of particularities and questions. If you have any project-specific inquiries, our team will gladly help you figure out the process particularities and come up with the best mobile application testing strategy.
What is mobile app testing?
Testing for mobile applications allows for evaluating the functionality, performance, and usability of a product before releasing it to the public. QA engineers run a thorough checkup to ensure the app works as intended and meets user expectations. The goal of mobile app testing is to identify and fix all critical issues before the app reaches users.
QA experts examine various software aspects when testing mobile applications. They look at how an app responds to different devices, screen sizes, and operating systems and test for potential bugs, glitches, or crashes that could impact the user experience. Additionally, mobile app testing assesses how well a product performs under different conditions, like poor network connections or low battery.
QA experts examine various software aspects when testing mobile applications. They look at how an app responds to different devices, screen sizes, and operating systems and test for potential bugs, glitches, or crashes that could impact the user experience. Additionally, mobile app testing assesses how well a product performs under different conditions, like poor network connections or low battery.
How to automate mobile app testing?
Automated testing for mobile applications involves using specialized tools and scripts. They enable QA engineers to perform testing tasks automatically. It’s particularly useful for repetitive or time-consuming tasks, allowing software testers to focus on more complex aspects of app quality.
Test automation for mobile applications starts with selecting the right tools that cover the required testing types, support the programming languages automation QA engineers know, etc. Next, test automation experts create scripts that mimic user interactions with the mobile app. Finally, they set up these scripts to run on various devices, tapping buttons, entering text, and navigating through different screens instead of QA engineers.
Test automation for mobile applications starts with selecting the right tools that cover the required testing types, support the programming languages automation QA engineers know, etc. Next, test automation experts create scripts that mimic user interactions with the mobile app. Finally, they set up these scripts to run on various devices, tapping buttons, entering text, and navigating through different screens instead of QA engineers.
How to do mobile app testing?
Mobile testing service is a systematic process. To ensure that a mobile application functions appropriately, QA engineers:
1. Identify the key functionalities and features of the app that need validation.
2. Outline the approach, prepare the test strategy, and write testing documentation.
3. Perform manual testing, simulating various scenarios on different devices.
4. Report bugs so that software developers can fix all defects found by this stage.
5. Set up automation (if viable and necessary) to streamline the testing process.
Throughout the mobile app testing process, our experts explore different scenarios, such as varying network conditions, device orientations, input methods, and more. They also look for any bugs, glitches, or inconsistencies that might affect the app’s performance. Additionally, QA specialists verify that the app meets specific requirements and complies with design guidelines for the targeted platforms.
The combination of manual and automation testing for mobile applications helps ensure reliability, functionality, and user satisfaction before the app becomes available to the public.
1. Identify the key functionalities and features of the app that need validation.
2. Outline the approach, prepare the test strategy, and write testing documentation.
3. Perform manual testing, simulating various scenarios on different devices.
4. Report bugs so that software developers can fix all defects found by this stage.
5. Set up automation (if viable and necessary) to streamline the testing process.
Throughout the mobile app testing process, our experts explore different scenarios, such as varying network conditions, device orientations, input methods, and more. They also look for any bugs, glitches, or inconsistencies that might affect the app’s performance. Additionally, QA specialists verify that the app meets specific requirements and complies with design guidelines for the targeted platforms.
The combination of manual and automation testing for mobile applications helps ensure reliability, functionality, and user satisfaction before the app becomes available to the public.
How to do performance testing for mobile apps?
During mobile performance testing, QA engineers focus on aspects like speed, responsiveness, and stability. The common approach is to simulate various scenarios, such as different network speeds, low battery conditions, and high user loads. For this, they use specific tools that recreate the desired conditions and allow for measuring how the app responds.
Performance testing is an umbrella term that entails a variety of behavioral aspects. For example, load testing evaluates the app’s response to regular, expected user traffic. Stress testing assesses the app’s stability by pushing it beyond its average operating capacity. Additionally, a mobile testing company can monitor resource usage (CPU, memory, and network bandwidth) to identify potential bottlenecks.
Performance testing is an umbrella term that entails a variety of behavioral aspects. For example, load testing evaluates the app’s response to regular, expected user traffic. Stress testing assesses the app’s stability by pushing it beyond its average operating capacity. Additionally, a mobile testing company can monitor resource usage (CPU, memory, and network bandwidth) to identify potential bottlenecks.